Final Fantasy X (The Longest Journey)

[Amake]

Voice acting was pretty new, at least. I wish you could turn it off. Buffs like Cheer stack five times until the end of the fight, and all they give is +1 to a stat. Those stats go up to 255 you know, and you're going to want to max all of them if you're going after the optimal bosses, the Dark Aeons and those guys.

The last and greatest of them, if memory serves, has 255 in all stats except Speed which is 250; 12 million hit points, outrageous seven-digit strong autocast Regen spells and two respawning helpers which, if both are alive at the same time, can end the game in one stroke. Fun times.

Leveling just the three or four best characters to max take geological ages by the way, even if you're cheating. (That's Yuna, Wakka and Tidus simply because their strongest attacks have 16, 12 and 9 strikes respectively, with Rikku's utility placing her at a distant fourth. Damage is king, boring but true. It's worth considering leveling Auron because he has an attack with two strikes.)

And yeah, as I recall Tidus and Yuna have some pretty deep stuff happening between them. Though it may be mostly gestures, glances and underwater dances. It's probably best to ignore the words coming out of their mouths.

In closing, I'll second that the Aurochs are the best Blitzball team, but not for the above reasons. They're by far the cheapest to keep around, and you need a team of four polygon bodies while Tidus grabs the ball, beats up the defensive line with Jecht shot, scores and repeats upwards of 30 times per game.